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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2002
Stephen W. Rothwell, Columbia, MD (US);
Chitra Krishnamurti, Potumac, MD (US);
Thomas J. Reid, Iii, Rockville, MD (US);
Stephen W. Rothwell, Columbia, MD (US);
Chitra Krishnamurti, Potumac, MD (US);
Thomas J. Reid, III, Rockville, MD (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are wound dressings comprising fibrinogen and at least one procoagulant such as propyl gallate in a therapeutic amount. Also disclosed are methods of treating wounds, increasing an amount of or rate of coagulation of blood from a wound, increasing an amount of or rate of clot formation over a wound, increasing blood platelet counts, activating a coagulation system, increasing the plasma concentration of fibrinogen, and decreasing the activated partial thromboplastin time. Also disclosed are an arterial bleeding model and methods of studying arterial bleeding.